no, there is no overlap whatsoever
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 03:47 (eight years ago) link
BBC Radio 1 head of music to join Spotify UKGeorge Ergatoudis, "to lead curation strategy and content programming at streaming service" (Spotify UK)http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/15/bbc-radio-1-spotify-uk-george-ergatoudis
― djmartian, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 12:11 (eight years ago) link
yyyyyyep
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 14:02 (eight years ago) link
Discover Weekly is the best recommendation engine of any kind that I've ever seen. I hear as many or more new-to-me tracks that I love every week as I ever did when I spent hours every day being an Internet Seeker. I suspect part of why it's so good is that I generated playlists comprising every track in my hard drive's music collection, so I'm feeding it a rich training set for my musical taste.
― Dan I., Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:42 (eight years ago) link
I highly recommend importing a playlist of your music collection in any case. I made a playlist in csv format of all 20000+ tracks on my hard drive in MediaMonkey, then converted it to spotify format in chunks at http://www.ivyishere.org/ , then pasted the results directly into Spotify. About 75% of the tracks were available on Spotify.
― Dan I., Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
You made a Spotify playlist of 20000 songs?
― pplains, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link
I think they have a 10000 song max so I had to split it into two parts, but yes.
― Dan I., Tuesday, 15 December 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
I know I could just use Plex or something to stream directly from my own home computer, but I did this instead for some reason.
― Dan I., Tuesday, 15 December 2015 22:16 (eight years ago) link
for the person whose playlists were deleted, there is a playlist recover function if you log in on the spotify website.
― pplasma, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 22:59 (eight years ago) link
Same reason we climb Everest. xp
― ilxors ananimus (onimo), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link
I'm in awe of that, Dan. No way I'd do that, but nice to know it could happen.
― pplains, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 00:58 (eight years ago) link
idk who came up with this http://spotify-starwars.com/
― ogmor, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 09:15 (eight years ago) link
https://news.spotify.com/au/2015/12/16/mixed-by-us-tuned-by-you-get-your-party-started-with-with-our-perfectly-mixed-playlists/
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 22:08 (eight years ago) link
Neat! What does "rolling out" mean, I wonder? I don't see this in my iPhone app.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
yeah thats pretty rad
― Spottie, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 22:27 (eight years ago) link
how do you access spotify party...is it a genre or a new tab or what
it took about 6-7 weeks after they announced they were "rolling out" discover weekly that i got it (and idk if putting in a help ticket w/ spotify sped it up) so who knows when everyone will be able to access this. soon though i hope...
― musically, Thursday, 17 December 2015 00:03 (eight years ago) link
“When it comes to throwing parties you simply have to have the right playlists – or everyone will leave,” says Diplo.
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 December 2015 00:51 (eight years ago) link
Got this this morning. Not to hate, but this one is not as cool as I had hoped. Songs aren't really mixed, just cross-faded. Most of the music is pretty mainstream.
― schwantz, Thursday, 17 December 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
I feel like at some point Spotify should make some kind of open API, so that apps can authenticate with a user's credentials, and then use the music however. The DJay app does this already.
I would love for people to be able to upload and share fully-mixed sets on Spotify. Maybe some kind of rev-share for the DJs? This might encourage discovery of more underground dance music, etc.
― schwantz, Thursday, 17 December 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link
Most of the music is pretty mainstream.
― schwantz, Thursday, December 17, 2015 1:32 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's a party playlist, what did you expect
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:02 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqZ1O0YhY5Q
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
Not my kind of party, I guess.
― schwantz, Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link
Yes, this is a resolutely and intentionally mainstream feature. The transitions in the built sets are beat-matched, though, not just cross-faded...
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
I guess so, but not the kind of fader-riding DJing that I expected.
― schwantz, Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
Diplo Made It
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 December 2015 03:46 (eight years ago) link
strong rumors that beatles are coming to streaming on xmas
― balls, Saturday, 19 December 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
chrismas eve, yes
― akm, Saturday, 19 December 2015 21:45 (eight years ago) link
Nice
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Saturday, 19 December 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
damn, new version loads fast as hell! right on
― lute bro (brimstead), Sunday, 20 December 2015 01:03 (eight years ago) link
i mean, launches fast as hell
Just verified this. Indeed.
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 December 2015 01:31 (eight years ago) link
are you talkin about desktop or mobile
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 20 December 2015 03:06 (eight years ago) link
desktop
― Die Angst des Elfmans beim Torschluss (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 December 2015 03:12 (eight years ago) link
any ideas abt what's the best free distributor for uploading your own music to Spotify etc.? there's loads to choose from, looking for something pretty... minimal, open-sourcy...
examples:http://www.tunecore.com/https://www.recordunion.com/http://members.cdbaby.com/
― niels, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 09:34 (eight years ago) link
My main criterion for a distributor was that it be free to me, since I don't expect my music to make money. So I've been using OneRPM, and it's been fine.
If you don't mind spending a little bit, I know other people who like distrokid.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link
Sounds good, thanks! (I dont expect to profit either so free is nice)
― niels, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
(My cumulative total royalties are steadily approaching $1.00. Just give another few months.)
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 21:03 (eight years ago) link
Hehe...
Beatles thing true btw http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/23/beatles-back-catalogue-music-streaming-spotify-apple-music
― niels, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 13:46 (eight years ago) link
HEYYY I was just having an intense listen to Chris Bell's "I Am The Cosmos (Deluxe)" album and after the fifth track it stopped playing and Spotify says the album does not exist. Did it get unlicensed in mid-listen? I hate the cloud.
― mick signals, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 14:01 (eight years ago) link
So now that the Beatles are streaming, who's left?
Drag CityNeil YoungPrince
If DC signed an exclusive deal with a service I would probably switch. They seem pretty stubborn and undifferentiated in their anti-streaming stance tho.
― westofrome, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 14:05 (eight years ago) link
anyone happen to know the legalities of uploadeing a parody track to Spotify?
― niels, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:11 (eight years ago) link
Peter Gabriel solo stuff isn't on there
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
I respect Drag City's position honestly
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
As little as I care about listening to the Beatles myself, I'm sort of happy that I can now play them for my kids without some sort of oldfangled musical disc aparatus.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:19 (eight years ago) link
Um, I think Neil Young and Prince are on Spotify in the US btw -- are you in the UK?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:20 (eight years ago) link
anyone happen to know the legalities of uploadeing a parody track to Spotify?― niels, Wednesday, December 23, 2015 3:11 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― niels, Wednesday, December 23, 2015 3:11 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
There are loads of "cover" versions, i.e. with band names that are sooooo similar to the real name, I believe actual Parody tracks are covered by the Free Speech regulations.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
xp they are not on Spotify in the US (well, there are a few terrible Geffen-era NY records)
― sleeve, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
Unless it changed recently, I am sure that I have listened to a bunch of classic Neil Young and Prince records on Spotify.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:37 (eight years ago) link
prince used to be on there but not for like a year now iirc
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
yea it changed they are no longer there
― marcos, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link